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1. Life’s purpose is inner growth, not outward importance
“God looketh on the heart and not, as man, upon the outward appearances.” 1567-2
This idea teaches that success in life is not measured by fame, position, or recognition. What truly matters is a person’s inner life—their intentions, sincerity, and desire to serve. A soul may have deep spiritual understanding and still live a quiet or unnoticed life, and this does not mean they have failed. God values who we are inside more than what others see on the outside.
2. Experiences matter because of how we respond to them
“An experience, then, is not only a happening, but what is the reaction in your own mind?” 1567-2
Life events by themselves do not define us. What shapes us is how we think, feel, and act in response to those events. Every experience is meant to help us grow into more loving, patient, and understanding people. Even difficult experiences are useful if they change us in positive ways.
3. The greatest purpose of life is love
“This is the whole law… to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, thy mind, thy body, and thy neighbor as thyself.” 1567-2
According to the reading, all spiritual teachings can be reduced to one simple purpose: love. Loving God fully and loving others as ourselves is the foundation of life. Every rule, lesson, or teaching exists to help us understand and live this law more completely in daily life.
4. Life comes from God and continues beyond death
“Life is continuous.” 1567-2
The reading explains that life does not end with physical death because it comes from God, who is eternal. Loss, separation, and death are not endings but transitions. This understanding is meant to bring comfort and trust, especially during times of grief or disappointment, by reminding us that God’s care never stops.
5. Human beings are body, mind, and soul working together
“So are our body, mind and soul one – in Him.” 1567-2
Life is meant to be lived in balance. The body, mind, and soul are not separate—they influence each other. What we think affects how we feel and act. What we do affects our spiritual growth. All three parts are meant to work together in harmony as expressions of God.
6. The mind is a creative force
“Then that our mind dwells upon… that do we supply to our body – yes, to our soul!” 1567-2
The reading teaches that the mind builds our life. What we focus on, believe, and think about shapes our physical health, emotions, and spiritual condition. Feeding the mind with love, truth, and goodness leads to growth, while negative thinking can harm both body and soul.
7. God’s kingdom is within
“The kingdom of Heaven is within.” 1567-2
Heaven is not described as a distant place but as an inner awareness. When a person becomes conscious of God’s presence within themselves—through thoughts, choices, and actions—they begin to experience peace and spiritual connection right now, not just after death.
8. Souls enter earthly life to learn through relationships and choices
“The purposes for which each soul enters materiality are that it may become aware of its relationships to the Creative Forces… in relation to its fellow man.” 1567-2
The reason souls come into the physical world is to learn how to live in relationship—with God and with other people. Life lessons are learned through daily interactions, service, kindness, and responsibility. How we treat others shows how much we understand our connection to God.
9. Free will is essential to the purpose of life
“Each day set before us life and death, good and evil… and we choose.” 1567-2
People are not forced to do good or evil. Choice is central to spiritual growth. Without free will, there would be no real learning or love. Every day, we choose attitudes, actions, and values, and these choices shape our life experiences.
10. Peace comes from living the purpose of love and service
“Thus ye shall know peace and happiness HERE – NOW!” 1567-2
The reading ends by reminding us that peace and happiness are not distant rewards. They are available in the present moment when we live with love, sincerity, and service. By understanding and living the true purpose of life, we experience fulfillment here and now.
READING 1567-2 EXPLAINED
This reading explains why human beings come into life and what life is meant to teach. It says that life is not about outer success, fame, or recognition. Instead, God looks at a person’s heart and intentions. Some people may have deep spiritual ability or understanding but live quiet lives. This is not a failure. Their experiences are meant to teach service, humility, and inner growth rather than outward importance.
The reading teaches that every life experience has a purpose. What matters most is not what happens to us, but how we respond to it. Experiences are meant to shape our thoughts, habits, and relationships so we become more loving, helpful, and hopeful. Life is a learning process, and each challenge gives us a chance to grow spiritually.
The main purpose of life, according to the reading, is to live by one simple law: to love God fully and to love other people as ourselves. All religious teachings are just explanations of this law. When we live with sincere purpose and love, our experiences become meaningful and helpful, even when they are difficult.
The reading also explains that life comes from God and continues beyond physical death. God is the source of all life, and because God is eternal, life does not truly end. When people face loss, pain, or disappointment, these experiences are not meant to destroy faith but to strengthen trust in God’s care. Death is described as a change of awareness, not an ending.
Human beings are made of body, mind, and soul, and all three are connected. The mind is especially important because it builds our life through what we think about and focus on. What we feed our mind shapes our body and our soul. The kingdom of God is not somewhere far away—it exists within us, through our thoughts, choices, and awareness.
The reading emphasizes free will. People are not controlled by fate, astrology, or outside forces. Instead, they influence their own lives through their choices. Each day, a person chooses between good and evil, love and fear, service and selfishness. These choices shape future experiences.
In the end, the reading teaches that we came into the world to be conscious companions with God. Life is meant to be lived with awareness, love, service, and responsibility. When a person chooses love and truth, they find peace and happiness in the present moment and fulfill the true purpose of life.
READING 1567-2 PARAPHRASED
The purpose of life is not about being famous, important, or noticed by others. God looks at the heart, not outward success. Each person comes into life to learn how to serve, love, and grow from their experiences. Even strong feelings and desires that seem blocked or unexpressed are meant to teach inner lessons. When a person learns to use these feelings in a good way, they can find peace, joy, and meaning in life.
Life experiences are not important just because they happen, but because of how we respond to them. Every experience is meant to help us become more loving, hopeful, and helpful to others. The true measure of life is sincerity of purpose and living by the greatest law: loving God with all our heart, mind, and body, and loving others as ourselves. Everything else in life is simply an explanation of this one law.
Life itself comes from God and is continuous. All living things are expressions of God’s creative power. Because life comes from God, it does not end with death. When we lose loved ones or face pain and disappointment, we are meant to learn trust—that God cares and provides a way forward. Separation from the body does not mean separation from God. How we treat others each day is how we show our relationship with God.
The reason we come into this world is to become aware of our connection to God through our actions. Human beings are made of body, mind, and soul, and all three are meant to work together. The mind is powerful—it builds our life through what we think about and focus on. What we feed our minds shapes our bodies and our souls. The kingdom of God is not somewhere outside us; it is within us.
Each soul enters earthly life to learn, choose, and grow. We are given free will so we can choose between good and evil, love and selfishness. We are not controlled by outside forces; instead, our choices shape our experiences. We are companions and co-workers with God, meant to consciously choose love, service, and truth. By doing this, we find peace and happiness here and now, and we fulfill the true purpose of life.
ORIGINAL READING 1567-2
Edgar Cayce: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called Miss [1567].
These as we find may be said to be very beautiful records, yet in ways such that it may be questioned by some as to why one who has been so far advanced in some experiences has been so little in the limelight or in the position of prominence through the same ways in the present.
If the varied experiences are studied with an eye single to service, these may possibly be understood or comprehended. For remember that God looketh on the heart and not, as man, upon the outward appearances.
Hence there are lessons to be gained by the entity from even those feelings, those innate urges that cry for expression. For in their very expression, not finding outlet they turn as it were upon those influences from within.
But we find that if these are used, the entity may yet find a peace, a manner or way of expression that will bring joy into the experience in this sojourn.
In giving the interpretations, know that these are chosen with the purpose that they are to become helpful experiences.
An experience, then, is not only a happening, but what is the reaction in your own mind? What does it do to you to make your life, your habits, your relationships to others of a more helpful nature, with a more hopeful attitude?
These are the criterions for every individual's experience - sincerity of purpose, of desire; putting the whole law into effect in the activities - which is to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, thy mind, thy body, and thy neighbor as thyself.
This is the whole law. All the other things given or written are only the interpreting of same.
Then what does such a proclaiming preclude? From what basis is the reasoning drawn? What is the purpose of an individual experience of an entity or soul into the earth at any given period?
These answered then give a background for the interpreting of WHY.
There are urges latent and manifested in the experience of each soul, each entity, each body.
First we begin with the fact that God IS; and that the heavens and the earth, and all nature, declare this. Just as there is the longing within EVERY heart for the continuity of life.
What then is life? As it has been given, in Him we live and move and have our being. Then He, God, IS! Or Life in all of its phases, its expressions, is a manifestation of that force or power we call God, or that is called God.
Then Life is continuous. For that force, that power which has brought the earth, the universe and all the influences in same into being, is a continuous thing - is a first premise.
All glory, all honor then, is DUE that creative force that may be manifested in our experiences as individuals through the manner in which we deal with our fellow man!
Then we say, when our loved ones, our heart's desires are taken from us, in what are we to believe?
This we find is only answered in that which has been given as His promise, that God hath not willed that any soul should perish but hath with every temptation, every trial, every disappointment made a way of escape or for correcting same. It is not a way of justification only, as by faith, but a way to know, to realize that in these disappointments, separations, there comes the assurance that He cares!
For to be absent from the body is to be present with that consciousness that we, as an individual, have worshiped as our God! For as we do it unto the least of our brethren, our associates, our acquaintance, our servants day by day, so we do unto our Maker!
What is the purpose then, we ask, for our entering into this vale, or experience, or awareness, where disappointments, fears, trials of body and of mind appear to mount above all of the glories that we may see?
In the beginning, when there was the creating, or the calling of individual entities into being, we were made to be the companions with the Father-God.
Now flesh and blood may not inherit eternal life; only the spirit, only the purpose, only the desire may inherit same.
Then that error in individual activity - not of another but of ourselves, individually - separated us from that awareness.
Hence God prepared the way through flesh whereby all phases of spirit, mind and body might express.
The earth then is a three-dimensional, a three-phase or three-manner expression. Just as the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit are one. So are our body, mind and soul one - in Him.
Now we have seen, we have heard, we know that the Son represents or signifies the Mind.
He, the Son, was in the earth-earthy even as we - and yet is of the Godhead.
Hence the Mind is both material and spiritual, and taketh hold on that which is its environ, its want, in our experiences.
Then Mind, as He, was the Word - and dwelt among men; and we beheld Him as the face of the Father.
So is our mind made, so does our mind conceive - even as He; and IS the Builder.
Then that our mind dwells upon, that our mind feeds upon, that do we supply to our body - yes, to our soul!
Hence we find all of these are the background, as it were, for the interpreting of our experience, of our sojourns in the earth.
For the astrological or the relative position of the earth (our immediate home) is not the center of the universe, is not the center of our thought; but the kingdom of the Father or the kingdom of Heaven is within! Why? Because our mind, the Son, is within us.
Then with that consciousness of His awareness, we may know even as He has given, "Ye abide in me, as I in the Father - I will come and abide with thee."
In that consciousness, then, the purposes for which each soul enters materiality are that it may become aware of its relationships to the Creative Forces or God; by the material manifestation of the things thought, said, DONE, in relation to its fellow man!
As the earth then occupies its three-dimensional phase of experience in our own solar system, and as each of those companions that are about the solar system represents as it were one of the phases of our conscience - the elements of our understanding - or our senses; then they each in their place, in their plane, bear a relationship to us, even as our desires for physical sustenance; that is: foods for the body; with all of the attributes, all of the abilities to take that we feed upon and turn it into elements for our body.
All of the elements are gathered from that upon which we have fed to build blood, bone, hair, nails; the sight, the hearing, the touching, the feelings, the expressions.
Why? Because these are QUICKENED by the presence of the spirit of the Creative force (within).
So our mind, with its attributes, gathers from that upon which we feed in our mental self; forming our concepts of our relationship with those things that are contrarywise to His biddings or in line with that Law which is all-inclusive; that is, the love of the Father, with our mind, our body, our soul, and our neighbor as self.
Then all of these influences astrological (as known or called) from without, bear witness - or ARE as innate influences upon our activity, our sojourn through any given experience. Not because we were born with the sun in this sign or that, nor because Jupiter or Mercury or Saturn or Uranus or Mars was rising or setting, but rather:
Because we were made for the purpose of being companions with Him, a little lower than the angels who behold His face ever yet as heirs, as joint heirs with Him who IS the Savior, the Way, then we have brought these about BECAUSE of our activities through our EXPERIENCES in those realms! Hence they bear witness by being IN certain positions - because of our activity, our sojourn in those environs, in relationships to the universal forces of activity.
Hence they bear witness of certain urges in us, not beyond our will but controlled by our will!
For as was given of old, there is each day set before us life and death, good and evil. We choose because of our natures. If our will were broken, if we were commanded to do this or that, or to become as an automaton, our individuality then would be lost and we would only be as in Him without conscience - CONSCIENCE - (consciousness) of being one with Him; with the abilities to choose for self!
For we CAN, as God, say Yea to this, Nay to that; we CAN order this or the other in our experience, by the very gifts that have been given or appointed unto our keeping. For we are indeed as laborers, co-laborers in the vineyard of the Lord - or of they that are fearful of His coming.
And we choose each day WHOM we will serve! And by the records in time and space, as we have moved through the realms of His kingdom, we have left our mark upon same.
Then they influence us, either directly or indirectly, in the manner as we have declared ourselves in favor of this or that influence in our material experience. And by the casting of our lot in this or that direction, we bring into our experience the influence in that manner.
...[Past lives and Astrological sojourns removed]
Hold fast to that which is latent and may be so manifested in that love ye hold for those of princely, crowning glories in the experiences ye have enjoyed in the earth!
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed; rightly divining - dividing - the words of truth, keeping thy own self in thy own good conscience unspotted from questionings within thy own self.
Write - WRITE - of Him; of those experiences of thy own!
And join thyself with those things being undertaken by thy brother-teacher of old!
Thus ye shall know peace and happiness HERE - NOW!
We are through for the present.
1567-2
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